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Historical Event on 10/22/1997
Indian veterans take winning 3-0 lead against Pakistan in the five-match cricket series.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/27/1977 | The Congress party splits into two factions, one supporting and one opposing Indira Gandhi. |
| 7/5/1992 | Bahadur Prasad at London sets record for 3000m in 7.56.74. |
| 8/18/1700 | Bajirao I, the second peshwa, was born. |
| 11/16/1989 | 66 out of 71 trapped miners at Raniganj rescued. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 6/6/1997 | Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab. |
| 9/3/1987 | Vishwanathan Anand, 17, becomes India's first and the world's youngest Grandmaster. |
| 7/31/1993 | Transport operators begin nation-wide strike. |
| 9/27/1703 | More than 8,000 people died in a cyclone in England. |
| 3/30/1908 | Devika Rani, famous film actress, was born. |
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